From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Bash crashes windows 98
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 12:14:26 +0200
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On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Damian Yerrick wrote:

> On Tue, 7 Mar 2000 10:16:56 +0200 (IST), Eli Zaretskii
> <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Chris Calvey wrote:
> >
> >> on hitting ctrl+alt+delete, windows informs me that it is waiting
> >> for a close window operation to complete, which never does.
> >
> >What happens if you tell Windows to "End Task"?  Does the whole
> >machine die, or only the offending DOS box?
> 
> Windows is waiting for the "close window" dialog box.  One part of the
> OS has apparently taken out a lock on window creation when the C-M-del
> code wants to put up the "Kill..." dialog, and the task manager is
> waiting for that lock to be removed.  So it BSOD's out to character-
> cell mode and asks if you want to wait for the lock to go away (press
> Enter) or restart the computer (C-M-del again).

Sorry, I don't understand: are you answering my question (in which
case I'd like to know how did you reproduce what happens on Chris's
machine, since it doesn't happen to me)?  Or are you explaining
something to Chris (in which case you should have replied to *his*
message, not to mine)?

FWIW, I never need to Ctrl-Alt-Del to get out of Bash.  Just type
"exit", and be done with it (nicely).